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I've had a 14-hour Philips Tivo unit for a coupla years (a kind birthday gift from my brother Jeffrey), and my friend Steve Gardiner has been bugging me to upgrade it - he's kind of a Tivo nut and has a couple of souped-up models. Well, last night I did, and it wasn't so bad at all. An old 61G hard drive I had lying around is now part of my 65-hour Tivo.
The instructions were clear, though there were so many choices and options that it was a little tricky picking out the parts that just applied to me, but anybody who's comfortable with tearing a PC apart can do this.
At some point I'll install the Ethernet card so I can do my schedule updates over the internet, but this will be another day.
Tivo rocks.
Posted by Steve at January 19, 2003 11:12 AM | TrackBackCool.
One of these days, I plan to do the same. I also have an origianl 14h model. I have spare disks but just haven't movtivated myself quite yet...
Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny on January 19, 2003 01:56 PMIf you have an old 14 hour version, you probably don't want to do an "add" type TiVo upgrade - you should replace the drive with the new drive or drives.
A 14 hour drives is pretty old at this point, and doesn't have a ton of life left in it . . .
Posted by: Michael on April 1, 2003 11:11 AMDon't sweat about changing the drives... it is EASY with MFSTOOLS2. You can back up your existing drive to your PC, and then write a copy out to a new disk drive (with or without programs at each step). This is a piece of cake... as long as you are comfortable with master/slave jumpers, and can follow instructions!
Luck!
Indulis
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Posted by: Lou on February 10, 2004 09:36 AM